This is just the beginning

He plays on the left, he plays on the right, that boy Ronaldo made England look shite.

Man United finally got the premiership back. It was an amazing season where the old players were in the best form of their careers while the young players really started to deliver. Obviously Ronaldo had a great season but Rooney struggled most of the year before getting his groove back. He finished the season ON FIRE. Premiership winners, FA cup final, Champions League semi-final. It has been a great season.

But this is just the beginning

The secret to United's success has been Ferguson's brilliance in the transfer market. He has not bought a single bad player in the last 3 years. I don't need to list the brilliant players who have arrived. But know this: United have the best batch of players coming out of the youth system since beckham/scholes/nevilles. Most of them have been loaned out for the past 12 months.

Rossi scored 9 goals since January for Parma in their relegation battle in Italy. Defender Pique has been a first team player Real Zaragoza, defender Jonathan Evans from Belfast was first choice at Sunderland last season, and he is an AMAZING defender. Ben Foster on loan at Watford is already Englands no. 2 goalkeeper. Those are the best prospects but there are plenty of others.

But that is not all, Owen Hargreaves will finish his move next week. Tonight, United have announced the double signing of Nani from Sporting Lisbon and Anderson from Porto. These are two of the best young players in Europe!

How all these new players can fit into an already large squad? I don't know. There will definitely be players sold I suppose. What I do know is that United are an unstoppable force about the devour every team in Europe they come across. I'm tired of Milan knocking us out of Champions League

VICTOOOOOOOOORYYYYYYYYYY

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The Ginger Ronaldinho

Paul McShane has been playing for West Brom in the championship (2nd division) for the last couple of years after being released from the Man Utd youth academy. He is a center back and has done so well at West Brom that he already has a couple of Ireland caps and was just voted the West Broms fans' player of the season. The guy is one of the least graceful players you'll see, which is why I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED!

SHOWBOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!

Calamity James

The only thing missing from the following video is some David "Calamity" James goalkeeping. Its hilarious footballing clips, and one of my favourite ever songs.

Apologies for the sausage!

Flagrant Dribbling

Barcelona's Argentinian player Lionel Messi has had a lot of hype surrounding him over the last 18 months. Even though hes still only 19, there has been lots of talk about how he is destined to be a great player, and how he could be the next Maradona. Infact, even Maradona himself made that claim.

In the last 12 months he's had a fair amount of injury problems, and I didn't hear much about him, he kinda disappeared off the radar. I figured that maybe he wasn't all that he had been cracked up to be, as happens a lot with football players. Then, last month, he was back in the news again after the brilliant game between real madrid and barcelona which finished 3-3 with Messi getting a hat-trick.

Last night Barcelona were playing Getafe in the Spanish domestic cup, and Messi scored a goal of such ridiculous flagrance that it has led to a bizarre number of Messi/Maradona comparisons being uploaded to youtube. Can you figure out why?

Maradona (vs England)



Messi (vs Getafe)



By the way, youtube sucks so much now! They remove so much content but it still appears in the search results, how retarded...

Fighting Footballers

Stevie G's tackle is quite horrendous! Also, Adrianos double punch (very start) is extremely flagrant and I love it. The very last punch in the video is just dirty and mean.

Football Compilations

Continuing on the theme of footballing flagrancy, here are a couple of football compilations I found. I decided to post them because they're a little bit different to the usual youtube fare. The first one is a compilation called "The Art of Defense", the second one is of brillaint teamwork goals. Check them out they are good, shame about the robbie williams music though.

Flagrant Football

I'm sure most of you will have seen it but how could I NOT post about this?!

Manchester United 7 - 1 Roma

This game was the second leg of the Champions League quarter final. In the first leg United lost to Roma 2-1, so who could have predicted that the second leg would be an exhibition of such footballing flagrancy! Uniteds biggest win in Europe since the 1950's. Romas biggest loss in Europe. Biggest win ever in a European quarter-final.

And I have to say, the quality of the goals was pretty excellent too. See for yourself....